A Biologist's Perspective on Big Bluegills
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Date: 2022-05-15
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Monsiemage
Public lakes with different bag limits have those for a reason. If their is a 25 bluegill limit at a lake it probably means that they are over populated or bass are under populated. States pay tons of money to have this research done. I personally catch and release 95% of the time but if you do take fish to eat -Nothing wrong with it- just obey the lake/state bag limits and everything should be okay. If their ever is a extreme over population of a fish, game and fish will let people know, love seeing big bluegill in lakes but where I live they rarely back off the state 40 bluegill limit and I believe that might have something to do with the smaller sizes of the fish. Most lakes I go to though the average size is about 5. 5 inches so I'd say that's actually pretty good, the main problem where I live it is undersized bass. Hard to catch one longer that 10 inches where I live, people tend to poach them to the point where most lakes here is Arkansas are catch and release, or have strict size limits.
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Public lakes with different bag limits have those for a reason. If their is a 25 bluegill limit at a lake it probably means that they are over populated or bass are under populated. States pay tons of money to have this research done. I personally catch and release 95% of the time but if you do take fish to eat -Nothing wrong with it- just obey the lake/state bag limits and everything should be okay. If their ever is a extreme over population of a fish, game and fish will let people know, love seeing big bluegill in lakes but where I live they rarely back off the state 40 bluegill limit and I believe that might have something to do with the smaller sizes of the fish. Most lakes I go to though the average size is about 5. 5 inches so I'd say that's actually pretty good, the main problem where I live it is undersized bass. Hard to catch one longer that 10 inches where I live, people tend to poach them to the point where most lakes here is Arkansas are catch and release, or have strict size limits.
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Outcast
There's nothing like a farm pond teeming with big bluegill. We'd use a fly rod with little cork poppers and catch em all afternoon. When it got dark and chilly we'd get on our bikes to ride home and you could still hear the Bluegill popping insects off the surface as we were leaving. That little pond was my favorite place to fish.
But they paved it over and now it's under a Walmart parking lot.
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There's nothing like a farm pond teeming with big bluegill. We'd use a fly rod with little cork poppers and catch em all afternoon. When it got dark and chilly we'd get on our bikes to ride home and you could still hear the Bluegill popping insects off the surface as we were leaving. That little pond was my favorite place to fish.
But they paved it over and now it's under a Walmart parking lot.
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briargoatkilla
All the big fish in this video had yellow grubs in their fins. You need to keep everyone you catch to stop that disease process. There's a reason why old timers used to say -never throw back a bream. - Modern fishery biologists are clueless. Catch and release is not always a good thing.
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All the big fish in this video had yellow grubs in their fins. You need to keep everyone you catch to stop that disease process. There's a reason why old timers used to say -never throw back a bream. - Modern fishery biologists are clueless. Catch and release is not always a good thing.
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hunt
41 years experience with lake talking. Keep the small ones keep the small ones keep the small ones! Even keep the 1 oz bluegill. You can fillet them with a tomato knife. I now have MANY bluegill over one pound. Keeping only the largest fish will only cause the runts to breed.
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41 years experience with lake talking. Keep the small ones keep the small ones keep the small ones! Even keep the 1 oz bluegill. You can fillet them with a tomato knife. I now have MANY bluegill over one pound. Keeping only the largest fish will only cause the runts to breed.
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Mathugh's
Ohio also has no restricted seasons but unlike some states where they have paddlefish seasons it-s just straight up banned. Lake Erie and Ohio River might have things like seasons I-m not fully sure and even though I live right on the river I don-t often fish in it.
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Ohio also has no restricted seasons but unlike some states where they have paddlefish seasons it-s just straight up banned. Lake Erie and Ohio River might have things like seasons I-m not fully sure and even though I live right on the river I don-t often fish in it.
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Left
I love reduced limits, certain places near me have done that and it does make the crappie bigger. When I get in a mess of big ones I tend to let every other fish go. I also try i to keep half a limit.
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I love reduced limits, certain places near me have done that and it does make the crappie bigger. When I get in a mess of big ones I tend to let every other fish go. I also try i to keep half a limit.
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Mathugh's
They aren-t smart, they eat slim jims in man made and natural lakes if you throw that in the water. Warmouths, green sunfish and red ears are smarter than a lot of others.
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They aren-t smart, they eat slim jims in man made and natural lakes if you throw that in the water. Warmouths, green sunfish and red ears are smarter than a lot of others.
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Elena
The difference in intellect, approach, and action between American biologists and Canadian biologists is astounding. Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario is a joke.
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The difference in intellect, approach, and action between American biologists and Canadian biologists is astounding. Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario is a joke.
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rick
I thought take the older big ones out because of there life expectancies. Not sure how long bluegill lives. At some point there going to die in a pond anyway.
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I thought take the older big ones out because of there life expectancies. Not sure how long bluegill lives. At some point there going to die in a pond anyway.
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rhodesphotoco
You just changed my bluegill habits forever, thank you! I used to keep the big males and let go the big females thinking I was helping the population.
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You just changed my bluegill habits forever, thank you! I used to keep the big males and let go the big females thinking I was helping the population.
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